Tara Roeder is an associate professor and director of First Year Writing at St. John’s University in Queens New York. She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her poetry and prose have appeared in multiple journals, and she is the author of several chapbooks including Panic Dance (dancing girl press), all the tiny babies of my dreams (Ghost City Press), and Every Bird is a Miracle, a collaboration with visual artist Arman Safa (New Michigan Press).